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learn remotely are more likely to repeat grades and end their education early, especially where grades repetition is more … common: Spain, Germany, and Italy. Education policies should be designed accordingly. …
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This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in … that an additional semester of exposure to the Free Education Policy reduces the intergenerational transmission of parent …
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Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...
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choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …
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Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate edu- cation within otherwise nonselective institutions? We evaluate the impact of admission to the Honors College at Oregon State University, a large nonselective public university. Admission to the Honors...
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We design a commitment contract for college students, "Study More Tomorrow," and conduct a randomized control trial testing a model of its demand. The contract commits students to attend peer tutoring if their midterm grade falls below a prespecified threshold. The contract carries a financial...
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When individuals risk being overeducated for their jobs, returns to education might be lower and heterogeneous. To … medium and higher levels of education are associated with an overeducation risk, this risk usually plays a limited role in …
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regimes to adhere to the needs of Industry 4. 0. Although a high level of general education will be important for its training … diversification of the supply of education. …
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China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment in the decade starting in 1999 … interpreted as the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) of education on earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE only … because of the Great HE Expansion. For the selected subsample of respondents with parental education information, we find that …
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Do investments in soft skills pay off in terms of student achievement? This paper evaluates a large private-sector program in this area, EPIS, based on individual and small-group sessions of mediators that seek to improve the non-cognitive skills (e.g. motivation, self-esteem, conscientiousness)...
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